Research assistant, Biomedical Science Department

• Provide support to Ph.D. candidates in their research, such as mouse experiments, tissue culture, protein analysis, and scRNA-seq analysis

• Analyze the behavior of tumor-macrophage fusion through cytokine expression and RNA quantification of fusion-stimulating cytokines

• Assist in vivo experiments using mouse model, flow cytometry, and Cre/lox system, which provide further evidence of the fusion phenomenon

• Data mining on public GEO / TCGA database (RNA-seq and scRNA-seq datasets) to find adjuvant treatments for triple-negative breast cancer

• Training and mentoring three undergraduate students to perform CRISPR-Cas knockout in cancer cell line

Adjuvants for COVID-19 vaccine

• Conducted final-year project experiments on chemokine-related RNA expression patterns of dendritic cells after exposure to SAR-CoV-2 ssRNA

• Investigated the potential of LPS and CL097 agonists as a vaccine adjuvant by looking into the plasmacytoid dendritic cell transcriptome and secretome

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Summer course: Immune-tumor interactions

• Familiarized with cell culture, gel electrophoresis, DNA extraction, lentiviral transduction, and utilization of flow cytometer to distinguish and separate cells of interest

• Transduced bacteria and cloned Cre/lox recombination plasmids for lentiviral transduction

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Prediction of Stroke-Related Features Using Electronic Health Records

• Assisted in literature reviews and editing manuscripts

• Curated references of medical tests and preprocessed medical records for model training

Lung Adenocarcinoma Gene Prediction & Drug Repositioning Model

• Assisted in genomic data curation, creating gene interaction visualizations, and editing the manuscript

• Gained proficiency in tools such as Cytoscape, Python, and R language

• Conducted enrichment analysis and clustering of the network using the K-nearest neighbors algorithm

Reversible Thermo-C Fuse

• Won the First Place Award of Youth Greenovation Awards 2019

• Won Best Oral Presentation in International Student Science Fair 2020

• Collaboratively studied the potential of Ni-Cu alloy and its potential to build reversible thermos fuse

• Uniquely fabricated and redesigned the fuse model using a lathe machine and improved the function of the fuse

• Synthesized and appraised Ni-Cu alloy through collaboration with the VISTEC Department of Molecular Science and Engineering

Fluid Density and Impact Cavity Formation

• Participated in the literature review, experimental design, and writing the manuscript

• Optimized the experiment procedures and calculation to obtain the accurate volume of the impact cavity

Self-healing Concrete

• Presented at the International Student Science Fair 2018

• Led and motivated peers to execute self-healing concrete using bacteria as the primary driver

• Successfully engineered self-healing concrete with 23-day healing capacity